One question I'm always asked is, "Is it really possible as a parent to keep up with technology and to make sure our kids are safe when they often know their way around technology better than we do?" And my answer is always an emphatic yes! More >>

Let me put things into perspective. When I was a college professor, it was standard for students to fill out opinion surveys at the end of the course on what kind of job you did in the class. Actually, when I was a student in college, we were asked to do the same thing and the opinions were anonymous. Well, not in my case. More >>

Last night I turned on the TV to see the pilot of the new show "Whitney" on NBC. Some of the previews showed it would be perhaps a perkier Mary Tyler Moore type. But the first scene showed Whitney and her boyfriend naked in the shower. I quickly flipped to another station. More >>

Earlier this year I happened upon an article by a respected family psychologist and parenting expert. In it, he provided lots of ideas on how parents could improve their family life, a number of which I completely agreed with. But then I got to his recommendation about family dinners. More >>

...Here are six sneaky, stealthy ways some state and local governments are raising taxes on small business in ways they hope won’t generate lots of adverse press coverage...

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It's been over 30 years now since the first personal computers, and over 15 years since the Internet, gave us all a digital life.  Who today can remember what it was like to do business in the days before e-mail, PowerPoint, laptops, Blackberries, iPhones, iPods, iPads, mobile apps, Facebook and Twitter?... More >>

It's official. Social media is here to stay.  It's not a fad like so many initially thought and it isn't going anywhere soon. Businesses have realized that not only is it a great way to connect with current clients, but a great way to land potential clients as well.  And that's only the beginning... More >>

The Associated Press just recently released its "Chronology of News Events in 2010."  It includes such momentous occasions as the Obama administration filing a lawsuit in Phoenix to block Arizona's toughest-in-the-nation immigration law (leaving out that it is an anti-illegal  immigration law), actress Lindsay Lohan beginning a 14 day jail sentence (reduced from 90 days due to overcrowding) for violating probation in a 2007 drug case, Wikileaks posting 90,000 leaked U.S. military records from the war in Afghanistan, and..... More >>

"My wife and I started a business a couple of years ago.  We formed a limited liability company (LLC) to run the business, and split the ownership (and the work) 50-50... More >>

A lot of the most popular video games on the market are war games.  Are they good or bad for teenage boys? More >>